Aesop Rock...

I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw...
sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons
a vagabond begging for three pennies and a princess
a junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle in
a batty senior citizen flashing that awful teethless grin
I saw a corner store merchant rest on a milk crate with a stog'
a pierced nose, a model with a stalker, cheap hooker, jay walkers
a table on a sidewalk with four old men slappin' dominos down
a city, a village, a neighborhood, a ghost town
I saw vandals catching tags and Puerto Rican flags
I saw a pregnant woman on the verge of bursting (boom)
I saw a blind man with a dog screaming "someday I'll see it all"
and then he sat down with his hammer and saw
business men with multi-colored ties, cashmere checks
a nazi with tattoos on his neck, a Vietnam war vet
a Caucasian man with a limp and a cane, a pimp with his names
a thug circus, a pack of shook tourists hugging their purses
I saw freaks with rainbow streaks in dayglo hair
a mother smackin' the grin off her child, replaced it with a stare
a pothole, a storefront with a broken open sign
a hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's closing time
I see a fuck up, a bum knuckle up with a taxi driver
a squatter, a grandfather, an angry right-to-lifer
I can see the roof garden on the apartment across the street
and kick myself because somewhere along the way I lost my seeds
I see a rat, a roach, a bat approach, a happy student
a black man with a horn and a will to make you sit and listen to it
I see a little girl on the corner with bubbles, braids and barrettes
I see a teen mother with similak pacifier and regrets
oh, a day turned stale, a hammer with a rusty nail, a failed marriage
a universe of brick buildings slightly off balance
a challenge, I see a chance to add real colors to my favorite palette
raise my mighty mallet towards the gods and swing my talons
I see a crack in the sidewalk
a slide show of six civilians gripping bottles of Gideon
sitting inside bent meridian
there's a fun house ooh, a sun spout
spraying yellow beams above yellow back dreams
and children in the hydrants
tyrants(?), I see sirens
the wall to the glamor standard
a dead bird, a bent curb
a bus stop of commuters waiting to have their souls towed off to work
I seen the slap dash habits of bike messengers paws
and hug that good leaf on the way to damaged packages, dependence
oh my lord, I see bandwagons, all aboard
a carnival amusement park where a heart is a luxury
I see a gas galaxy huddled behind those pearly doors
maybe I should sit up on my fire escape a little more

ok

What's sad is you think that takes more skill, or is better than Jadakiss...

Yes, Aesop Rock is a much better lyricist than Jadakiss in my opinion, though that wasn't specifically my point.

Aesop is boring to me, but he's a talented writer.

I think he is better than Jadakiss. If you think Ghostface Killah is better than Jadakiss, you should think Aesop Rock is better than Jadakiss.

Lord Emperor N3R0N0N wrote:

I think he is better than Jadakiss. If you think Ghostface Killah is better than Jadakiss, you should think Aesop Rock is better than Jadakiss.

nope, Ghost is charismatic. I honestly find Aesop boring.

Dude if you don't find Aesop charismatic...I don't even know what to say to that.

His personality oozes all over every verse he spits...BORING? The dude's flow is head spinning...

Lord Emperor N3R0N0N wrote:

Dude if you don't find Aesop charismatic...I don't even know what to say to that.

His personality oozes all over every verse he spits...BORING? The dude's flow is head spinning...

Nope, Boring!

Jason wrote:

Yes, Aesop Rock is a much better lyricist than Jadakiss in my opinion, though that wasn't specifically my point.

Jada would MURK Aesop Rock in 8 bars!!

Aesop can't see ANY member of the LOX, not even Sheek Louch.

Murk him in 8 bars? So what?

Kool John, was that serious?

KJ Styles wrote:

Jason wrote:

Yes, Aesop Rock is a much better lyricist than Jadakiss in my opinion, though that wasn't specifically my point.

Jada would MURK Aesop Rock in 8 bars!!

Aesop can't see ANY member of the LOX, not even Sheek Louch.

You sure about that KJ?

Anyway, I can see why some folks say Aes Rock is boring. I can also see why some folks find Kanye to be boring. Personally, I used to spin Aesop all the time. I have all his records except for his newest (I've heard it). Nowadays, I just don't find myself spinning them much, but I still think they are nice records. Plus, Blockhead is at his finest IMO on Labor Days. The production makes that record.

Uhh...why is this thread...in existance?

lol @ fool john...he probably never even heard of Aesop Rock before this thread...

And I ain't getting any younger
My knuckles wear their bruises well
I've yet to lose that hunger
But only time can tell
Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish to sew that prodigal stitch
And crucify bigot voodoo doll on two popsicle sticks
See your name is Ambiguity
My name is something hands can't hold
But hearts part ocean scapes just to watch the starlet unfold
It's like sketching a circle in the dirt with a pointed stick
Knowing the wind'll kill it some day, still it calls my burning wits for now
And if I plow the fields that don't guarantee plentiful harvest
But starving artists die, I set my alarm for five o'clock
Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing
The Bible's carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds
To the opening, scarlet carpets greeting their duel
Leading the stubborn mule to cruel rugburn
But y'all numb from gut fuel
I administer eclispe, there ain't no motor like a martyr-made motor
Cuz a martyr-made motor don't quit
I am an epiphany, I am wet foot mammal
Channel surfing my way to the top
Tugboat in a bottle
With no holes poked in the nozzle
I fed em bedlam diluted in limelight
Till that rookie boogie graduated hostile
And the vehicle is grandeur and it veered over the medium
The second my halo ran outta helium
Demoted to thorn crown, damn talk about numbskull
I was born bound to a stencil called symmetry
But my energy's a rental
So I take this now to save
My cute seniorita beholding a flame to a lost wick
Thank you James Anthony for the band-aids on my ego
Y'all are family for life
I'll take that bullet to preserve you
I wanna be something spectacular
On the day the sun runs outta batteries
Attach my fashion to the casualties of anarchy
Save my nickels up to buy that homeless man a brand new horn
Then sit up on his crate as I witness the beauty born like this

Jesus Christ!!!!!!!!! What is your point? Are you posting these lyrics to try to convert people? Not everyone likes Aesop Rock, and his type of music. Seriously all you have done on these forums is praise an alternative white rapper, listen to husker Du, Bob Dylan, complain about a ton of artists and albums that you think are mediocre. not once have you effectively contributed anything.

Did someone force you to click on this thread, or you just like bitching?

I just don't really care for the way you present yourself

I don't care for the way some of you seem to be constantly PMSing, but you don't see me following you around complaining about your taste in music. It's a problem when I don't like something, it's a problem when I do like something. I don't care if you don't like the same music I do.

T. Myers wrote:

Seriously all you have done on these forums is praise an alternative white rapper, listen to husker Du, Bob Dylan, complain about a ton of artists and albums that you think are mediocre. not once have you effectively contributed anything.

Big ups to Bob Dylan!

Husker Du is tight too...

I'm shocked you would say that Alan.

Lord Emperor N3R0N0N wrote:

I'm shocked you would say that Alan.

If the dude is praising Bob Dylan, we at least know he has an ear for superb lyrics.

And Husker Du is a Minneapolis punk group who influenced a ridiculous amount of punk bands to follow.

Sorry not everyone is a hip-hop purist like yourself.

Bob Dylan is Hip-Hop

bob dylan, while a respectable artist, is not hip hop my friend.